Sigvald: Florence Quackfaster

[M.J. Prior]

I wrote in a previous mail:

> Afaik, the first and probably only apparition of Miss 
> Quackfaster's first name as 'Emily' was in Don Rosa's 
> Lo$ part 11. Geoffrey Blum could easily have missed that 
> piece of information as it's probably not very
> widespread.

To which Sigvald replied:

> Or it again proofs his (IMO) lack of respect for other 
> artists, Barks included.

To which I replied:

> I can't see how such a slip-of-the-mind can
> have anything to do with a "lack of respect
> for other artists" and it certainly hasn't
> anything to do with a "lack of respect for
> Barks" since 'Emily' is a name made up by Don
> Rosa, not by Carl Barks.

To which Sigvald again replied:

> Correct! In my *personal opinion* it is when Blum uses 
> vague ideas from Barks as basis for modern stories that 
> he shows a lack of respect for Barks.

I think you're contradicting yourself here, Sigvald. If 
you think that Blum shows a "lack of respect for Barks" by 
"using vague ideas from Barks" and agree with me that 
"forgetting a one-shot-first-name for an otherwise partly 
unnamed character" hasn't anything to do with a "lack of 
respect for other artists", then why did you bring this 
"lack of respect"-thing up in the first place? It's 
*totally irrelevant* to the subject of my first posting! 
[Since 'Emily' isn't a "vague idea from Barks".]

Or are you blaming Blum for NOT using a "vague idea from 
Rosa" (this being Miss Quackfaster's first name 'Emily') 
while at the same time blaming him for USING "vague ideas 
from Barks"? What do you think Don Rosa does? His whole 
Lo$-series was based on "vague ideas from Barks". 

[Well, actually, I don't think Barks' ideas about 
Scrooge's past were *very* vague, but Don Rosa definitely 
made them *more concrete*.]

I also wrote:

> Following the same train of thought, you
> (Sigvald) might as well blame Don Rosa for
> showing "lack of respect for Strobl" by
> 'ignoring' the existence of a story by Toby
> Strobl and Bob Gregory, in which Scrooge's
> mining grandfather was called Titus.

To which Sigvald replied:

> As far as I can remember Don Rosa has commented this 
> himself on DCML not very long ago. By then he said  
> something like it was a mistake by him - he
> didn't knew. *And I won't blame him.* 

Yes, I knew that, and I knew you knew, that's why I chose 
to take this as an example. Do you see you're using two 
different measures for Blum and Rosa?

Michiel Prior.